Re: Why I don't like 'instanceof' (was Re: [RDFa] ISSUE-3: syntactic sugar for rdf:type)

Hausenblas, Michael wrote:
>> 'type' is an existing attribute in HTML
> 
> ... that's why my mother always says: Think before you speak/write ;)
> 
> But, still, IMHO the *new* attribute should be something 
> containing 'type'. Now risking Steven will hate me, I propose:
> 
> 'typeOf'
> 
> Hope I did not open another Pandora's box ;)

You did:-)

Ivan

> 
> Cheers,
>  Michael
> 
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ivan Herman [mailto:ivan@w3.org] 
>> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 11:17 AM
>> To: Hausenblas, Michael
>> Cc: Steven Pemberton; Ben Adida; RDFa; SWD WG
>> Subject: Re: Why I don't like 'instanceof' (was Re: [RDFa] 
>> ISSUE-3: syntactic sugar for rdf:type)
>>
>> 'type' is an existing attribute in HTML
>>
>> Ivan
>>
>> Hausenblas, Michael wrote:
>>> Again: Why do we refuse naming it 'type'?
>>>
>>> Because it is to RDFish? (BTW, we're doing *R*D*F*a)
>>> Or are there any (X)HTML (2) issues, I might have missed?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>  Michael
>>>
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>>>  Michael Hausenblas, MSc.
>>>  Institute of Information Systems & Information Management
>>>  JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH
>>>   
>>>  http://www.joanneum.at/iis/
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>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: public-swd-wg-request@w3.org 
>>>> [mailto:public-swd-wg-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Ivan Herman
>>>> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 10:57 AM
>>>> To: Steven Pemberton
>>>> Cc: Ben Adida; RDFa; SWD WG
>>>> Subject: Re: Why I don't like 'instanceof' (was Re: [RDFa] 
>>>> ISSUE-3: syntactic sugar for rdf:type)
>>>>
>>>> If so... 'category' maybe the closest to what we mean...
>>>>
>>>> Ivan
>>>>
>>>> Steven Pemberton wrote:
>>>>> I think there are only 3 reasons why I think 'instanceof' is 
>>>> a bad choice:
>>>>> 1. Multiword, which I already spoke of.
>>>>> 2. instance has another meaning in some existing and future XHTML
>>>>> documents.
>>>>> 3. It comes over as rdf-speak. Up to now we have done our 
>>>> best to avoid
>>>>> exposing RDF terminology to the XHTML author; no subject, 
>> predicate,
>>>>> object and so on, just existing HTML concepts where possible.
>>>>> Unfortuantely, most of the synonyms have already been taken (class,
>>>>> type, role), but I still think we should try and find 
>> something that
>>>>> reads better than 'instanceof' or 'isa'.
>>>>>
>>>>> /me runs a thesaurus
>>>>>
>>>>> sort
>>>>> kind
>>>>> category
>>>>> realm
>>>>>
>>>>> depict
>>>>> portray
>>>>> represent
>>>>> embody
>>>>>
>>>>> like
>>>>>
>>>>> Steven
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:25:48 +0200, Ben Adida 
>> <ben@adida.net> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In today's telecon, we proposed and resolved to use a *new* 
>>>> attribute,
>>>>>> rather than @class or @role, for the rdf:type syntactic 
>> sugar. Thus,
>>>>>> @class and @role do not currently result in any triples 
>>>> being generated,
>>>>>> although one may consider that they will in a future version.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The question, then, is which attribute to use. Steven expressed
>>>>>> reservations about two-word attributes like "isa" or 
>>>> "instanceof", and
>>>>>> instead proposed: denotes, depicts, represents, category, 
>> ilk, kind.
>>>>>> Other thoughts?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm partial to "instanceof" and "kind", and I have no additional
>>>>>> suggestions.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Ben
>>>>>>
>>>>>
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>> Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead
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